History

The Farwell Project
A former general store and grain mill are at the center of an effort to revitalize a small town

The Hinckley Company’s War Boat Production
While the Hinckley name today is synonymous with luxurious pleasure boats, back in the 1940s, the Maine boatbuilder produced a series of working boats for the war effort.

Joseph Ranco
Joseph Ranco: A Maine master canoe builder and early designer at Indian Old Town Canoe Co.

The Point
The story of a Rockland community and its days as a bustling neighborhood.

Josiah Shackford
Josiah Shackford, a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, may well have been the first known person to sail solo across the Atlantic. He did this in 1787.

Maine’s Early Beginnings as an Art Mecca
Maine’s role as an art mecca dates back to early art summer camps.

Museum Tells the Story of Western Maine
Rangeley’s Outdoor Heritage Museum: Preserving Western Maine’s Sporting History.

A Special Sloop Designed to Carry Heavy Granite
Carrying heavy Maine granite to far-off ports required a special type of sloop.

Granite Piers Hark Back to the Age of Ice
A tangle of woods in Brooksville was once home to a major business: the Maine Lake Ice Company, that shipped ice all over the world

A Bar Harbor “Cottage”
A 1930's summer mansion with a secret